Before the check came, Megna got a letter from an attorney for Mercedes. "Your actions serve no legitimate purpose, and can only have been motivated by an intent to harass and intimidate Mercedes-Benz and its dealerships and to disrupt their business operations."

It asks that he cease and desist.

Megna said he did receive a check Monday from Mercedes for $618,216.66 -- which he said was about $1,400 short.

There's still the matter of another couple hundred thousand dollars worth of attorney fees and costs Megna will try to collect for the time the case was on appeal from the original award.

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